Faced with a dramatic rise in new infections of HIV health agencies in Taiwan are making home testing more easily available. The nation’s Centre for Diseases Control announced on Friday a new scheme that would see blood and saliva based home testing kits being made available via convenience stores. Previously the kits were only available […]
Tags: AIDS, Andrew Burry, Health, HIV, Home Testing, self testing, Taiwan, WA AIDS Council
9 Jun 2019 /
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The UK has lifted a ban on home HIV tests, allowing people to test themselves at home and read the results themselves. Previously people in the UK were able to test themselves at home but had to send the test off to a laboratory to receive the result at a later date. No home testing […]
Tags: HIV, Home Testing, Terence Higgins Trust, UK
8 Apr 2014 |
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Researchers at the University of New South Wales and the Kirby Institute are running a new study looking at home testing for HIV. The study, titled Forth, is being run in conjunction with HIV organisations and sexual health centres in Sydney and Melbourne. Melbourne Sexual Health Centre Director Christopher Fairley said that the study aims […]
Tags: AIDS, Forth, HIV, Home Testing, Kirby Institute, study, University of New South Wales
21 Jan 2014 |
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In October last year the Melbourne Declaration was launched. A clear strategy on what Australia needs to do to tackle growing rates of HIV. Introducing rapid testing is a key requirement of the strategy, but its rollout is still likely to take considerable time. Meanwhile in the United Kingdom a different approach has been taken […]
Tags: AFAO, AIDS, All Things Queer, Andrew Burry, Deborah Jack, Home Testing, Linda Forbes, National IADS Trust, Perter Dutton, rapid testing, RTRFM, Tanya Plibersek, The Melbourne Declaration, WA AIDS Council, WAAC, Willie Rowe
14 Sep 2013 |
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Heath experts in the UK are pushing to have the countries laws changed to allow HIV home testing to be introduced. Britain’s ‘London Evening Standard’ is reporting that UK Health officials are about to announce that they will move for the introduction of home testing kits for HIV. Currently to get tested for HIV people […]
Tags: AIDS, Britain, Deborah Jack, HIV, Home Testing, Lisa Power, Terrance Higgins Trust, United Kingdom
11 Aug 2013 |
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